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  • Frankenstein
  • The Bride of Frankenstein
  • Son of Frankenstein
  • Young Frankenstein

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  • Candyman

    ★★★★★

  • TÁR

    ★★★★

  • Tokyo Godfathers

    ★★★★★

  • Pink Flamingos

    ★★★

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  • Candyman

    Candyman

    ★★★★★

    Third watch, this time showing a friend for the first time who was considering setting a Monster of the Week TTRPG campaign in Y2K-era Chicago. This felt obligatory for their reference!

    During the scene where Candyman is carrying Helen to the altar, my friend says "This just got...really sexy all of a sudden" and I said "That's the thing, everything about this has actually been sexy the whole time"

  • TÁR

    TÁR

    ★★★★

    category eight woman moment

    i haven't used letterboxd in months because i've been watching star trek and wrestling instead of movies oops!

    i was really struck by the swerves this movie took into being scary. going in without much idea to expect, every time it cut to her jogging i was filled with dread that she might find a dead woman's body or something. but now i realize the dead woman isn't a body in the woods but is a…

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  • Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde

    Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde

    ★★★★

    Oh, oh, oh my fucking god.

    Let's talk about Martine Beswick. Let's talk about the first transformation sequence, in which Dr. Jekyll swallows his brilliant new hormone cocktail and is suddenly, swiftly, and totally transformed into the female persona of Sister Hyde. Her self-realization is gradual and you can trace every inch of it on her face as it appears; Beswick's performance is loaded with the smallest of smallest physiognomic tics. Everything about her is carried so carefully and deliberately,…

  • Disney Channel's Theme: A History Mystery

    Disney Channel's Theme: A History Mystery

    ★★★★

    Kevin Perjurer's internal conflict over whether his work constitutes the filmmaking of a documentarian as opposed to the "content creation" of a "YouTuber" gradually comes into focus in his latest work, a surprisingly rich and heartfelt depiction of the noir-style research required to answer a seemingly simple question: who wrote the four-note theme song to the Disney Channel intertitles and bumpers that premiered in 2002? Not just what was his name, but who was he? And why does it matter?…